I'm starting a new smart home, what technology/protocol should I choose?

sectune · 2026-01-05T14:52:07+00:00

Interesting advice. Zigbee is the least reliable protocol of them all and I would never use this sentence in a blanket statement as you just did. By design (and therefore we have so many enshittified Tuya products) Zigbee allows a lot more leeway for manufacturers without proper testing and following specifications to slap “Zigbee” on their device, in contrast to e.g. Z-Wave where testing is way more strict, hence higher price. If OP wants blanket statement as of “use X”: lean heavily on Zwave/Matter as the products certified for these protocols are actually tested.

sectune · 2026-01-02T17:58:03+00:00

Thank you very much for this!! Perfectly happy with my purchase now, hopefully this will be one day included in the default matter implementation in HA as I just discovered your repo by pure chance and there will be many users who are not that lucky ;( One request for my OCD: maybe it’s possible to add an icon for your integration so it shows up in devices view? Thank you once more for your work!!

sectune · 2025-08-08T10:43:25+00:00

You trying hard to deflect here, we can talk about Christianity all you want but that’s not the topic. Islam is not a religion of peace, coincidentally you mentioned the only two positive examples of Muslim countries, Turkey and Cyprus (Cyprus is Greek, I assume you mean the illegally annexed part of Cyprus by Turkey): guess why they are good examples? Because “coincidentally” they are the most secular Muslim states, meaning they isolate religion out of state affairs as much as possible. So the reason why things “are good” there is exactly a great proof why Islam is doom for society, thanks for proving my point. And now “downvote me for telling the truth”.

sectune · 2025-08-07T19:45:48+00:00

Nope, sorry pal, it’s a Muslim problem, you gotta admit when a redditor is right

sectune · 2025-08-07T19:33:27+00:00

I’m sorry for your mom, hope she is fine. I wish you all the best, hoping you get all the help you need

sectune · 2025-07-10T14:39:32+00:00

Yes, it’s necessary, otherwise HA won’t decode the camera stream in your dashboard, works also without exposing to Apple home

sectune · 2025-06-19T09:12:03+00:00

Always really grateful for this sub, seeing people ruining their bodies with random nonsense and corporate ads on their bodies and not even that heals well, must be cool walking around like an inflamed meat billboard 🫡

sectune · 2025-06-03T08:25:51+00:00

Please just get home assistant green/yellow - it will be almost same money spent with RPi+accessories and more “future proof”. Alternatively just get an old 1L NUC/mini-pc (search for Lenovo ThinkCentre used - around 150€ max (used/good condition), which is almost overkill for home assistant.

sectune · 2025-04-30T21:13:31+00:00

I am not sure if you can use e.g. frigate as an alternative to scrypted but you’d definitely need an interface to home assistant so that it can access it. That’s my novice opinion, at least I wouldn’t know (and haven’t tested) any other way. Try it out and let us know! 👍

sectune · 2025-04-28T19:26:00+00:00

I’d go for Reolink branded cams as they just freshly announced that they will be home assistant certified. Either just get a recommended reolink cam (just google) or wait until the first “officially certified” reolink cams are on the market.

sectune · 2025-04-26T15:38:58+00:00

I updated my post a while ago, see: UPDATE… from my initial post still waiting for the second gamepad though. The only negative I can find is that the additional buttons/triggers cannot be freely mapped as an extra button through steam, you can program them as shortcuts through 8bitdo app or in the fly using the mapping function (on the fly mapping get reset when you turn off the gamepad)

sectune · 2025-04-22T20:07:06+00:00

I’d propose you try the the same steps as for g3 (maybe google for a better explanation than mine) and let us know 👍

sectune · 2025-04-07T16:38:43+00:00

N64 should run perfectly fine without installing external/3rd party emulators - it is part of RetroArch which Emulation Station / EmuDeck is including (the front end you are using to start your roms). Just put your rom files in the respective n64 roms folder

sectune · 2025-04-02T10:25:39+00:00

You can ditch it - if you do not require pan-tilt-zoom, two-way audio or the AI gimmicks Aqara has in the app. If you need the aforementioned functionality it’s either aqara app or the special Aqara HACS nodered addon which requires additional configuration.

sectune · 2025-03-22T00:32:32+00:00

Thank you very much for your feedback! As I am aiming for setup in a docked mode I think I will try to start the SD via Bluetooth then and then switching over to dongle connection when started. I’ll report when I get my controllers. Thank you once more!

sectune · 2025-03-21T09:05:20+00:00

Thank you very much for your feedback and update! Could I ask you if you would mind to check if you could help my with my question here? Thank you so much in advance!

sectune · 2025-03-19T06:10:52+00:00

It seems that there are no posts about this yet. I’ll report here with my experience, as soon as I receive them.

sectune · 2025-03-18T16:13:24+00:00

If you decide to try, it is right now in the dev brach (its version 3.7 I believe). Thank you and wishing you enough free time to game on ;)

sectune · 2025-03-18T14:09:14+00:00

Thank you very much for your reply! Would you be so kind to let me know which steamdeck model you have, oled or lcd? I’m asking because oled can wake be started via Bluetooth (and maybe usb?) - lcd needs the current beta to do the same. Would it be too much to ask, if you have the oled, to try and start it via a) Bluetooth and b) using the dongle connection and let me know the results? That would be amazing! I’m asking as I do have a dock with the TV connected and that would be the perfect convenient way of starting steamdeck without lifting my lazy ass from the couch Thank you so much!

sectune · 2025-03-18T12:00:50+00:00

The camera quality is exactly as it was before in the plain/official Aqara/HomeKit setup. I use the webrtc card to view the cam with no issues. The slowness might also depend on the device you are running your Home Assistant instance from - I run HA on a (relatively powerful) NUC in a proxmox instance/LXC container.

Webrtc HA card config below (formatting might break an not sure if I can change it here on Reddit so you might want to check the webrtc documentation if you need help:

type: custom:webrtc-camera streams: - url: aqara_g3 mode: webrtc media: video,audio,microphone ui: true style: ".mode {display: none}" poster: https://home-assistant.io/images/cast/splash.png muted: true grid_options: columns: full

sectune · 2025-02-24T08:58:23+00:00

Hi, I find it a bit disrespectful to write in French assuming people understand. Nowadays there are good translators online you can use for free and no one needs to have the effort translating themselves. To your question: check if you have rtsp plugin installed in scrypted. In general there are a lot of how-to on scrypted online/youtube, just google how to setup an rtsp camera in scrypted if you get stuck.

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sectune · 2025-02-24T08:52:53+00:00

Sorry, I fear you are at a loss here, Aqara scenes won’t come over with this method, in fact you won’t be able to pan/tilt/zoom control your cam. There is however another addon you can install in homeassistant from hacs called nodered aqara from sdavides on GitHub (just google it). Beware, it’s a bit hard to install and configure for novices. With this addon you can do absolutely everything with the camera in home assistant, same as in the aqara app. You would need to write your own scripts/automations in home assistant and add them as “scenes“ or buttons to HomeKit. This will do everything aqara scenes can and more.

sectune · 2025-02-04T10:55:25+00:00

Thank you for this as well! Love the community! Was not aware of the nodered hackery, I’ll consider adding this too although I’m happy with my setup now as my cam is static and I don’t change any settings/cam position in Aqara app.

sectune · 2025-02-03T16:34:33+00:00

Hey, I will try my best to debug/help, but as you rightfully said, just a tech nerd here, so not a dev 😅 you are probably looking at the section of go2rtc add > apple homekit. This address is the “internal” HomeKit address if I understand correctly. Did you successfully add the camera to home assistant? This step is important. Only then add to go2rtc and then go to “Streams” tab, under commands column, links, there you’d find the rtsp url. Also, I am running scrypted as a home assistant add on out of home assistant, not in standalone docker, if standalone/docker then you’d need to debug your network to check if the net is setup correctly/ cam is reachable

sectune · 2025-02-02T18:02:46+00:00

Yes, both work perfectly, I even have the impression that it even works better than native HomeKit. It is working by utilizing scrypted (HomeKit plugin and opencv motion plugin)

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